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For an architectural comparison, if you form a brickwork opening for a new window, you tend to make the window 20mm smaller so that you have a 10mm manufacturing tolerance around the frame. This analogy sums up VAR and offside for me, they have an opening in a wall, but they’ve ordered the...

Agreed. Think most of us are debating the technology, it's accuracy and how it's deployed. Whether it evened out, was or wasn't offside isn't really the point.

I kind of like cricket's answer to this conundrum - how much of a cricket ball needs to be shown to be hitting the stumps that the technology can reliably overturn the on-field decision. What we have lost with VAR that other sports have retained is the sanctity of the on-field official's...

Doesn’t change the limitations of the technology. Use it in a way appropriate to its accuracy.

Agree. Pundits and people on here saying ‘it was offside’ - not really grasping the limitations of the technology.

Trouble is VAR isn’t accurate enough to make these calls. 2 frames on and the ball is still in contact with the player’s boot as he passes it and the attacker is onside. The accuracy of this system is dependent on 2 key things: 1. Which frame the operator decides to freeze. 2. Where the...